Precise Dimensions A History of Units from 1791 2018 1st Edition by Malcolm Cooper, Jim Grozier ISBN 9780750314855 0750314850

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ISBN 10: 0750314850
ISBN 13: 9780750314855
Author: Malcolm Cooper, Jim Grozier

Precise Dimensions A History of Units from 1791 2018 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 The metre and the metric system

Part 1: The making of the metre

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The birth of the metric system

1.3 The Meridian Expedition

1.4 How the Meridian was measured

1.5 From angles to metres

1.6 Measuring the base lines

1.7 Crunching the numbers

1.8 Extrapolation to the quadrant

1.9 Conclusion

Part 2: The metre convention and the BIPM

1.10 The archive metre shows its age

1.11 The international consensus: 1864–1875

1.12 The metre convention: 1 March to 20 May 1875

1.13 The metric system in the 20th and 21st centuries

References

2 From notion to precision: the SI second

2.1 Ancient times

2.2 The mechanical clock

2.3 The pendulum

2.4 Pursuing precision

2.5 Earth abandoned?

2.6 Electronics appear

2.7 Independent standards

2.8 Conclusions

References

3 Lord Rayleigh’s determination of the ohm

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The rotating coil method

3.3 Value of the BA unit of resistance as determined by Rayleigh

3.4 The Lorenz method

3.5 The mercury standard

3.6 Subsequent developments and modern resistance standards

References

4 Temperature scales: past, present and future: 1700–2050

4.1 Introduction

4.2 de facto temperature scales: 1700–1900

4.3 Towards defined temperature scales

4.4 The demise of defined temperature scales?

4.5 Summary

References

5 Kelvin’s absolute temperature and its measurement

5.1 Thomson’s motivations for absolute temperature

5.2 The absolute as the abstract

5.3 The operationalization of Thomson’s first absolute temperature

5.4 Thomson’s second concept of absolute temperature

5.5 The operationalization of the second concept

5.5.1 The ideal gas thermometer as an indicator of absolute temperature

5.5.2 Checking the behaviour of actual gases against the ideal

5.6 Iterative operationalization

5.6.1 The problem of circularity

5.6.2 An iterative solution to the circularity problem

5.6.3 Implications of the iterative solution

References

6 A brief history of the unit of chemical amount

6.1 Comparative measurements

6.2 Quantitative measurements

6.3 The mass unit of the chemist: the gram-molecule

6.4 The many atomic weight scales

6.5 The name: mole

6.6 Molar measurements in practice

6.7 Amount of substance as a dimensional quantity

6.8 The Avogadro number

6.9 Proposed new definition of the mole

6.10 Consequences of the entity-based definition

6.11 Outlook

References

7 The history of the SI unit of light, the candela

7.1 Introduction: light and vision

7.2 Artefact-based standards and units for measurement of ‘light’

7.2.1 The evolution of artificial lighting

7.2.2 Flame standards

7.2.3 The black-body standard, the ‘new candle’ and the ‘candela’

7.3 A radiometric approach to photometry

7.3.1 The relationship between photometry and radiometry

7.3.2 Luminous efficacy

7.3.3 The 1979 radiometric definition of the candela

7.3.4 Practical photometry using the 1979 radiometric definition

7.3.5 The use of photometric quantities and units

7.3.6 Quantifying other photobiological and photochemical effects

7.4 A look to the future

References

8 The story of mass standards 1791–2018

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Construction of the kilogram of the archives

8.3 William Hallowes Miller and the New Imperial Standard Pound

8.4 The metre convention, the BIPM and the international prototype of the kilogram

8.5 Relative stability of national and international prototypes

8.6 The new definition of the kilogram

8.7 Realisation of the kilogram using the silicon x-ray crystal density method: Si→SI

8.8 Conclusion

References

9 Mass from energy—a unit for a quantum world

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